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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Banking Crisis"”.
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Banking Crisis in Japan: Prediction of Non-Performing Loans
… prices a decade ago. Japan's still unsolved banking crisis constitutes a threat to a large component of the global financial system. Some economists believe that these events were avoidable. Better underwriting by Japanese banks and more prudent monetary policies by the Central Bank of Japan …
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Non-performing bank loans and banking crisis in the Pakistani banking system
This thesis investigates the Pakistani banking crisis, which was the result of non-performing bank loans over the period 1996-98. The thesis uses primary data collected for this research through questionnaires from the credit managers who approved these non-performing bank loans. The …
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Autopsy of the Banking Crisis: Examining the Impact of Director Characteristics on Bank Failures
… catastrophic impact of the recent financial crisis on the banking industry reverberated throughout the United States and had contagion effects worldwide. Congressional inquiries, media scrutiny, and the public alleged failure of the boards of directors to effectively discharge their …
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An analysis of the determinants of the banking crises in the Southern African Development Community (SADC)
This study analysed the determinants of banking crises in the SADC region for the period 1985-2011. The probability of a banking crisis was estimated using a multinomial logit model on real GDP growth level, terms of trade, the ratio of private domestic credit to GDP and the ratio of M2 to foreign …
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Essays on Systemic Banking Crises and Bank Regulation
… insurance remain statistically significant crisis determinants in the long run but that variables such as real-interest rates and inflation are not reported as systemic banking crisis determinants when estimated over a full business cycle. When studies such as these are conducted we find …
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The effects of the Euro-zone debt crisis
… dissertation attempts to establish whether this crisis could have been predicted and how it has affected the bond market. Subsequently, we can get a better idea of what will happen in the future to these countries and investigate the actions that might need to be taken to fix this problem. This …
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Capital Controls and Banking Crises in Emerging Markets
… the relationship between capital controls and banking crises and the existing research has mixed results. We argue that the results may depend on the measurement of capital controls. Previous research used a broad index of capital controls, but this may lead to imprecise results due to their …
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Three Essays on International Political Economy
… US capital flows would affect the occurrence of banking crises in emerging markets and compare the effects with total foreign flows. Research Motivation: The focus of this research on US capital flows stems from the Structuralism approach in International Political Economy. This theory argues …
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Essays on Market Conditions and Corporate Investment Decisions
… through regulations. Episodes of systemic banking crises across many countries are examined to identify unanticipated credit contractions; firm investment growth during and post crisis periods are compared to their pre-crisis levels. The chapter shows that credit contractions are costly for …
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Investigating Nigeria's asset management corporation : a case study of a bad banking solution to banking crises
… (NPLs) in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. It is a case study that primarily investigates the effectiveness of AMCON in addressing the banking crisis in Nigeria based on evidence from different sources ranging from economic indicators to media reports and newspaper interviews. The …
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Systems modelling of the South African offshore demersal hake trawl fishery : an economic perspective
… value-added products, especially after the 2008 banking crisis. This corresponds to an industry-confirmed price-convergence between fresh and frozen hake products. This product displacement trend is largely due to changes in the largest export market, Spain, and is mirrored by an increased …
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Financial Stability Models of the Irish Banking Sector: Deposit Flows and Property Price Dynamics
Since the global financial crisis, there has been renewed focus on the analysis of sys- temic risk. Systemic risk refers to possibility that vulnerabilities across the financial system and between the financial system and the real economy will be triggered. As a result, intermediation activities …
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Essays on Monetary Policy and Financial Crises
… monetary policy’s role in causing a financial crisis and (ii) the central bank’s management in times of crises. After a brief introduction in chapter 1, chapter 2 examines if US monetary policy implicitly responds to asset price booms. Using real-time data and a GMM framework, a Taylor-type …
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Essays in Banking and Default
… and weak economic fundamentals lead to a banking crisis. Policy interventions face a trade-o¤ between alleviating banks' funding conditions and strengthening their risk-taking incentives. Due to this trade-off, liquidity provision to banks may eliminate the good equilibrium when it is not …
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Asset Prices, Banking and Economic Activity
… in the aftermath of the sub-prime mortgage crisis in the United States. There have been multiples changes in regulatory policy across the world, and specific steps are being taken to dampen exuberance in the real estate market. Only time can tell if these measures turn out to be effective, …
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Essays in debt sustainability and financial stability
… of financial shocks. I examine whether banking crises are systematically different from other financial catastrophes (currency crises), and, most importantly, whether pre-crises fiscal buffers are particularly important whenever banking crises materialize. Lastly, the paper investigates …
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Financial Crisis in the European Union: The Cases of Greece and Ireland
The 2008 eurozone financial crisis has only worsened as of summer 2011 raising questions about the economic future of the eurozone and sending shock waves through economies around the world. Greece was the first state to receive a bailout from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund, …
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Essays on the financial sector and macroeconomic policy
… motivated by the events of the current financial crisis - first in its guise as a banking crisis and then in its guise as a sovereign debt crisis. All four chapters make a contribution to the literature, whether it is to deepen the understanding of financial frictions models, how they behave, how …
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Foreign banking inflows, financial sector development and economic growth in ECOWAS and SADC
… essay focuses on financial sector stability via banking sector stability. It is motivated by the evidence that the financial system of the two regions are bank based which is also over 50% foreign bank dominated. Specifically, the essay investigates the effects of foreign banking inflows on …
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Systemic risk, financial stability, and macroprudential policy responses in emerging African economies
… damage caused by the 2007/08 global financial crisis (GFC) has forced policymakers all over the world to respond promptly in order to mitigate its effect, a process in which they are still engaged in, particularly in advanced economies. The main objective of this study is to measure systemic …
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